[zfs-discuss] openindiana-1 filesystem, time-slider, and snapshots

2012-10-16 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris)
Can anyone explain to me what the openindiana-1 filesystem is all about? I thought it was the backup copy of the openindiana filesystem, when you apply OS updates, but that doesn't seem to be the case... I have time-slider enabled for rpool/ROOT/openindiana. It has a daily snapshot (amongst

Re: [zfs-discuss] openindiana-1 filesystem, time-slider, and snapshots

2012-10-16 Thread Darren J Moffat
On 10/16/12 14:54, Edward Ned Harvey (opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: Can anyone explain to me what the openindiana-1 filesystem is all about?I thought it was the backup copy of the openindiana filesystem, when you apply OS updates, but that doesn't seem to be the case... I have

Re: [zfs-discuss] openindiana-1 filesystem, time-slider, and snapshots

2012-10-16 Thread Jason
Ahh.. the illumos lists change the from address (or set reply-to), so that a plain reply simply works. Sorry about that :) But yeah, when you update you probably want to snap/backup your current BE. It won't hurt anything to snap/backup the old ones, just that they'll contain the non-updated